Jim Brown Active Member Licensed User Longtime User Oct 21, 2014 #1 For me, this is one of the exciting areas of development for Android. The new Android 5 release has support for capturing and saving RAW (DNG) formats. This should allow for greater manipulation of the data than what a lossy JPG capture allows. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/camera2/package-summary.html I have seen some really impressive results taken from a Nexus 5 running the preview Lollypop and camera software taking advantage of the RAW capture: http://imgur.com/a/qQkkR#17 http://i.imgur.com/QwHjnlM.jpg http://imgur.com/a/KkILh#7 See also this lengthly REDDIT thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2joqyh/l_camera_dng_samples_from_nexus_5_and_what_you/ Exciting times ahead.
For me, this is one of the exciting areas of development for Android. The new Android 5 release has support for capturing and saving RAW (DNG) formats. This should allow for greater manipulation of the data than what a lossy JPG capture allows. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/camera2/package-summary.html I have seen some really impressive results taken from a Nexus 5 running the preview Lollypop and camera software taking advantage of the RAW capture: http://imgur.com/a/qQkkR#17 http://i.imgur.com/QwHjnlM.jpg http://imgur.com/a/KkILh#7 See also this lengthly REDDIT thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2joqyh/l_camera_dng_samples_from_nexus_5_and_what_you/ Exciting times ahead.
thedesolatesoul Expert Licensed User Longtime User Oct 21, 2014 #2 I think the real power of the Camera2 API is in the pipelined processing and ability to send the image directly to rendecscript and such. I dont see an advantage to having RAW data just for pictures, as it takes up too much space.
I think the real power of the Camera2 API is in the pipelined processing and ability to send the image directly to rendecscript and such. I dont see an advantage to having RAW data just for pictures, as it takes up too much space.
